Defense Presented A Good Case
26th May 2005
Craig A. Smith, a professor at the Santa Barbara College of Law and a former prosecutor in the Santa Barbara County district attorney’s office, said that the defense had presented an effective case but that the California child molesting law gave the prosecution an advantage.
“They don’t have to prove that Jackson touched the boy sexually, only that he touched him to appeal to his own sexual passions,” Mr. Smith said.
On the whole, however, Mr. Smith said the defense achieved what it had sought. “They gave a picture of Michael Jackson as childlike and innocent,” he said, “a 46-year-old man who has trapped inside of him the soul of a 12-year-old boy.”
Source: NY Times
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